Mark Hohmeister: It's easy to choose a mid-sized city

2:59 PM,
Sep. 27, 2013

Mark Hohmeister

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It was Bear Bryant (or maybe Paul Brown, or Vince Lombardi or Dick Vermeil) who said: "When you get in the end zone, act like you've been there before." The point is, don't look foolish celebrating something that countless others already have accomplished.

I thought about that quote this week when Tallahassee was all aflutter because a local boy, Tony Hale, won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series ("Veep"). To top it off, he actually mentioned Tallahassee - and the Young Actors Theatre - on television! He was featured on Page 1A for three consecutive days. We hadn't ...